About This Manual
This User Manual describes NVIDIA® BlueField® Ethernet BF1500 Controller Card. It provides details as to the interfaces of the board, specifications, required software and firmware for operating the board, and a step-by-step plan of how to bring up the BlueField Controller Card.
EOL'ed (End of Life) Ordering Part Numbers
The table below provides the ordering part numbers (OPNs) for available BlueField BF1500 Controller Card.
| NVIDIA SKU | OPN | Marketing Description |
|---|---|---|
| 900-9D1A2-0056-SN0 | MBF1L516B-CSNAT | BlueField® Controller card, Dual-Port 100GbE QSFP28, BlueField® G-Series 16 cores, PCIe Gen3.0/4.0 x16, Crypto disabled, 16GB on-board DDR, FHHL, Single Slot, Tall Bracket |
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for the installer and user of these cards. The manual assumes basic familiarity with Ethernet network and architecture specifications.
Technical Support
Customers who purchased NVIDIA products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us through the following methods:
- URL: https://www.nvidia.com > Support
- E-mail: enterprisesupport@nvidia.com
Customers who purchased Mellanox M-1 Global Support Services, please see your contract for details regarding Technical Support.
Customers who purchased Mellanox products through a Mellanox approved reseller should first seek assistance through their reseller.
Related Documentation
| IEEE Std 802.3 Specification | IEEE Ethernet specification at http://standards.ieee.org |
|---|---|
| PCI Express Specifications | Industry Standard PCI Express Base and Card Electromechanical Specifications at https://pcisig.com/specifications |
| Mellanox LinkX Interconnect Solutions | Mellanox LinkX InfiniBand cables and transceivers are designed to maximize the performance of High-Performance Computing networks, requiring high-bandwidth, low-latency connections between compute nodes and switch nodes. Mellanox offers one of the industry’s broadest portfolio of QDR/FDR10 (40Gb/s), FDR (56Gb/s), EDR/HDR100 (100Gb/s), and HDR (200Gb/s) cables, including Direct Attach Copper cables (DACs), copper splitter cables, Active Optical Cables (AOCs) and transceivers in a wide range of lengths from 0.5m to 10km. In addition to meeting IBTA standards, Mellanox tests every product in an end-to-end environment ensuring a Bit Error Rate of less than 1E-15. Read more at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/interconnect/ |
Document Conventions
When discussing memory sizes, MB and MBytes are used in this document to mean size in mega Bytes. The use of Mb or Mbits (small b) indicates size in mega bits. In this document PCIe is used to mean PCI Express.
Revision History
A list of the changes made to this document are provided in Document Revision History.
